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Chapter 75: The Point Where Difference Ends

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The fracture no longer felt like a wound.

It felt like a threshold becoming a mirror.

What had once been a boundary between systems—between existence and reduction—was now something far more unstable:

A place where two fundamentally different processes were beginning to resemble each other.

The child was changing to avoid definition.

The entity was changing to allow it.

And in that convergence—

The world began to lose something it had never consciously protected.

Difference.

Not immediately.

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